Global
Crossings Gallery
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Capture Site | Floating Point | Intermundos | Nike Blanket Petititon | |
| Radiomap |
Surveillance | The Face of Tomorrow | World Hug Day | ||
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| Intermundos Site by Vanessa Gocksch (Pata de Perro) |
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Vanessa
Gocksch |
 "Beso de Negra" or kiss of a black women - flower of the Putmayo Region of Colombia. Copyright © Oscar Alvarez |
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and workshops are organized relating to the hiphop movement; we host a weekly
hiphop radio program, have published documentaries and have collaborated
with other independent entities by participating in events and exchanges
on a local and global scale. We have recently initiated a collaborative
initiative with the PixelACHE festival group from Finland whereby exchanges
are being generated between the “electronic subcultures” of
our two countries and beyond. In all of our projects we work to strengthen the sense of local identity by highlighting the immense intellectual and cultural wealth of the different regions of Colombia. We, like many others in Colombia, feel that it is only through this heightened sense of identity (and greater access to information) that we can construct movements (or a society) that can move beyond following cultural trends towards proposing them. |
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 A root, Maria, Jesus, red knickers and a tree. Copyright © Vanessa Gocksch |
Today,
what is perhaps the most important intellectual legacy existent in Colombia
- indigenous knowledge - is fast disappearing. The western world has not
yet validated “pre” – literate forms of knowledge acquisition
as a valuable asset towards the “development” of human culture.
This disdain on the part of the dominant, technology-based culture causes
as consequence the continuous extermination of aborigine cultures and disappearance
of their intellectual legacy. Intermundos is developing ways of
reaffirming the values of these cultures through different projects and
exchanges. Most of these are still in their initial phase. The website Intermundos.org is to serve firstly as our window to the world, and secondly as a multimedia experiment that serves to find new ways to communicate ideas threw an organic format that does not follow a specific logic (that arises from linear thought) but rather invites the user to lose themselves in a chaotic framework much more true to life itself (multidimensional). We still consider the website to be a pilot, we are currently seeking funding in order to make it the cultural portal we wish it to become. |
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| Artist
Biography Vanessa Gocksch Vanessa Gocksch, is an artist who was born in the north but opted for the south. Travelling from Brussels to Miami then Mexico, she is now based in Cartagena de Indias on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. She studied visual arts with an emphasis in sculpture in Florida International University, La Cambre and Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. She has worked with many different mediums including sculpture, etching, photography, installation, performance, video and documentary. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in Mexico, Colombia, Brooklyn, Miami, Helsinki and London. As of 2000 she started venturing into the digital realm, teaching herself the tools necessary to communicate and create in what she calls an indispensable medium when located in a “remote” region of the planet. She is presently performing as a video jockey under the name Pata de Perro, as well as producing a documentary and developing the communication project Intermundos and its website. |
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